...help it. But God, by his prophet, instead of conceding the doctrine, repelled it with indignation. 'Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; And come and...

...help it. But God, by his prophet, instead of conceding the doctrine, repelled it with indignation. 'Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, arid swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; And come...

...it. But they perverted, to a different end, the temple and its services. Hence follows the rebuke, " Behold, ye trust in lying words that cannot profit. Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not, and come and...

...between a man and his neighbour ; 6 If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widovy, and shed not innocent blood in this place, • neither .walk after other gods to your hurt : 7 ' Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in « the land that I gave to yo.ur fathers, for...

...amend your ways and your doings ; if ye thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour ; if ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and...after other gods to your hurt, — then will I cause • 1 Kings, xxii. f Jer. xxxvii, xxxviii. I See that exquisite prayer of Jehoshaphat, 2 Chron. xx,...

...amend your ways and your doings ; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; 6 XX. 1 Pashur, smiting Jeremiah, receiteth a new name,...and a fearful doom. 7 Jeremiah complaineth of contem calamities of Judah and Jerusalem, there were others, who took on themselves to flatter 4h* people...

...widow," &c. (Isai. i. 11—18); indeed all the chapter teaches the same doctrine. Again, in Jeremiah : " Behold, ye trust in lying words that cannot profit. Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and s\vear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not, and come and...

...to dwell in this place. If you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; if you oppress not the stranger, the fatherless and the widow...hurt, then will I cause you to dwell in this place." Again this message was sent not only to the inferior ministers of justice, but also to the chief ruler....

...terms that occur, Rev. xiv. 10, 11. Let the reader also consult Jer. vii. 1—7. The 7th verse is, " Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, forever and ever.'<' See also Jer. xxv. 5. " Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from...

...amend your ways and your doings ; if ye thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour ; if ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and...land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever." When Jewish institutions are quoted as precedents for Christian legislation, it might not be amiss...